Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  2 09:28, cyg Simple wrote:
> > From: Corinna Vinschen
> > 
> > That doesn't make sense either.  The symlinks created by setup or Cygwin tools
> > are using POSIX paths, not Windows paths.  Since you're moving the Cygwin
> > installation as a whole, the reference point for the POSIX root dir moves as well.
> > From the Windows (i.e. robocopy) perspective, those symlinks are simple files
> > with arbitrary content and the DOS system bit set.
> > 
> 
> I've had issues where I forget to modify /etc/fstab for the new device.

The default fstab only contains a single entry for cygdrives, which is
installation path agnostic.  But either way, it wouldn't let robocopy
fail.


Corinna

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